BELLS!!!!!!!!! ( see josh's blog first)

Bells amusement park was my very first real life job!!! I got it the summer that dad and I started dating! I remember working one time on a ride called the "mouse"....I pushed the wrong button and let a "mouse" go through and hit the "mouse's" waiting to be sent off.....anyway, the mouse hit the other mouses with a GREAT crash.....next thing I know, I looked up and Bobby Bell was running out of the office (which just so happened to be right next to the "mouse" ride) and yelled at me to get away from that ride and not touch it again! He also yelled at the supervisor to never let me on it...I spent the rest of the summer in the kiddie park having to endure the merry-go-round music! I also remember that my friends and I would go down to the little park just west of Bells called Florence Park, on our breaks because they had a little water sprinkler there that kids (like me!) could play in. One time we had gone for a cooling off, cuz this was before they had the water rides there, and when we got back, I was put on the "bullet" ride...easy to operate....except when your body is wet and the ride has mega volts of electricity pulsing through it....needless to say, it pulsed through me a little bit. There were so many other memories I have of that place, the smells, the trash, the fun, the puking, finding all the things that fell out of peoples pockets at the end of the night.....times change, people change, as my friend Sandy would say "lifes all about changes"! So fasten your seatbelts, hold onto the stuff in your pockets and have a GREAT time on this ride called life! I am having a BLAST!! Just got through having Colin for some of his spring break and Anabelle and Emily came up and spent some time here with us. I get to go spend Brooke's birthday with her and also Easter!

IN 36 YEARS I NEVER!!!!!!

Here are the before and after and during pictures of Rick Humphreys getting his hair cut shorter than I have EVER seen it in person!!!! I have seen pictures of him with hair like this when he played on the Hoover Hotshots team in elementary school,but NEVER have I actually seen his hair this short!! Uncle Donnie is the only one who probably remembers those days! Anyway, I think he looks like "Sargent Carter"!!! Love you ya big dummy!!!!

I.Aing

INTERACTING - "to ACT in unison or agreement with others", "transmit thoughts or feelings", take part in social activities with others", "display excessive love or show excessive gratitude towards others", get involved so as to alter or hinder an action", keep company with or hang out with". These things do require, for the most part, our "being with " the other person. I guess you COULD interact without the human touch, but how much more fulfilling and expressive is a touch from a human hand, or a look from the human soul? Those you don't get with the I.Ming we do these days. Although I will readily admit that at times we have communicated more "freely" using the I.M. method than the "in-your-face" method! I HAVE learned a LOT about my children since these blogs started that I would NEVER have known otherwise. And for THAT, I am truly grateful for the internet access we all have today. However, the closness we had in the "old days" was based on a physical closeness that came from going to grandmas house or over to the neighbors house and playing cards or wahoo! By spending time fishing together or cooking together in the kitchen. And yet, I think that no matter what age, it truly depends on the person as to whether or not there will be a closeness.....because, as I have said, I have gotten to know my children in a new way and that is a true treasure for a mom of boys! So, all this to say that I LOVE getting to know my family in this way, but always prefer it when I can give them a hug, not a yellow smiley face on a flat screen!!! Keep up the good interaction boys and I will see you soon to catch up on hugs!! P.s. Luke, I didn't get to give you one last time, so there will be several waiting for you next time!!
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For the SPELL CHECK NAZIS, my apple is not responding to it, so there IS NONE!!

My grown up godchildren....

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THE ICE MAN COMETH..

Yes...we have had 3 days of ice and 2 inches left on the ground. Rick had a unforgettable experience yesterday upon his return from 4 days in Denver, when he had to get a cab to bring him home from the airport because I wouldn't get out to get him because of the ice and the fact that our driveway is at a 90 degree angle and that a pond is located in the perfect place for our car to slide backwards down the driveway INTO it!! Anyway, he phoned to say he was coming and so I waited...and waited....it took him 30 minutes to take a 10 minute ride!! As I was passing by the front window I saw him walking past our mailbox pulling his suitcase behind him!!! His cab driver would not go down our street because of the ice and the angle and so dumped him off at the edge of our edition!! He walked down hill for 2 blocks on 2 inches of ice!!! Quite a sight to see....he said "the f@*&##*!ing towel head was a moron" or something to that effect. He made it and I was glad to see another human for the first time in 4 days!!! It is beautiful though...and reminds me of this...."by the breath of God ice is given and the breadth of the waters is frozen." "He gives to the earth snow like a blanket of wool; He scatters the hoarfrost like ashes. He casts forth His ice like crumbs; who can stand before His cold?" Again, I am shone what a small "breath" from God can do to our "advanced" society.
I spent most of those days packing up the unnecessary items in our house, so that we can put it on the market and prepare to move to Stillwater. Yes, according to Ricky, we are moving there to give it a go. I would believe it, but for the fact that I don't. I have dreamed of living there for so long that to finally begin to head that direction is surreal to say the least. I am doing the things necessary to accomplish this goal in a rather mechanical way. Maybe my dream will come true and maybe it won't, but either way, I will be prepared. Wish us luck in selling our house. If we actually SELL it, it will only further my strong belief in miracles in the 21st century, given the market today.... Ciao!